Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

And Micah said to him, "From where do you come?" And he said to him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place."

And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man became to him like one of his sons.

And Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest."

When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; and they turned aside and said to him, "Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?"

And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of E'phraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, "I came to Gib'e-ah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.